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  • 2021
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2021
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 28 m

Summary Little Girl is the moving portrait of 7-year-old Sasha, who has always known that she is a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gender identity, embracing their daughter for who she truly is while working to confront outdated norms and find affirmation in a small community of rural France. Realized with delicacy and intimacy, S...

Directed By: Sébastien Lifshitz

Written By: Sébastien Lifshitz

  • 2021
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2021
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 28 m

Little Girl

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
80
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary Little Girl is the moving portrait of 7-year-old Sasha, who has always known that she is a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gender identity, embracing their daughter for who she truly is while working to confront outdated norms and find affirmation in a small community of rural France. Realized with delicacy and intimacy, S...

Directed By: Sébastien Lifshitz

Written By: Sébastien Lifshitz

Where to Watch

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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90
Sep 20, 2021
With a limited, intimate focus, Little Girl becomes a grandly diagnostic analysis of French society, distilling the country’s fault lines into a few indelible images.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 16, 2021
[A] disarmingly sensitive documentary.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 16, 2021
Lifshitz never demonizes those that don’t understand or oppose Sasha’s desire to be who she really is and they remain almost entirely offscreen. Instead, the director chronicles, with immense warmth and generosity, the toll this outside opposition takes on Sasha and her loved ones and how much love, care and attention is needed to compensate for the fact she’s not simply accepted like all her peers.
By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 29, 2021
Sasha’s parents are inspiring in their determination to give their daughter the childhood every girl her age deserves.
By Lillian Crawford FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 17, 2021
With sun-kissed cinematography by Paul Guilhaume and the construction of the story in miraculously intimate closeups of touching moments, “Little Girl” plays almost as if it were an aesthetically verité, yet scripted fiction film from the Dardenne brothers. It’s only the handful of interviews where the family speaks to the camera that breaks the spell.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 16, 2021
[A] tender observational documentary.
By Simran Hans FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 24, 2021
Cinematographer Paul Guilhaume paints dreamy scenes of happiness, too, playing in the backyard with siblings, trying on a pink bikini – in these moments we see the most of Sasha’s personality.
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45% Negative
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Production Company ARTE, Agat Films & Cie, Final Cut for Real, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Det Danske Filminstitut, Cinémage 13
Release Date Sep 17, 2021
Duration 1 h 28 m
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Website https://www.musicboxfilms.com/film/little-girl/
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Awards

Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Seville European Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
European Film Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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